In a brilliant and engrossing narrative, Nancy MacLean shows how Buchanan forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt to preserve the white elite’s power in the wake of Brown v. Democracy in Chains names its true architect-the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan-and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority. But billionaires did not launch this movement a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. RSVP HERE (Please note that your RSVP is requested, not required)Ībout the book: Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots.

She will be joined in conversation by Jane Dailey. Nancy MacLean discusses Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America.

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